Basketball Hoop Regulations

Video Transcript

"Hello. My name is Susan Summons and I'm a college basketball coach here at Miami Dade College Kendall Campus. Lets talk about basketball hoop regulations. As a basketball player you have to understand the rules of the game. That helps you to become a better basketball player. If you know the game, you know the rules then you are better able to perform on the basketball court without hesitation because after all basketball is stop and go. You don't want to be thinking about the rules and regulations while you're trying to take a basket to the hoop or go to the hoop and score a basket or work on your pivot or think about your pivot when. So hoop regulations. What are some hoop regulations that you need to be concerned with or you need to learn? One is dribbling. You need to make sure that when you're dribbling the basketball you don't dribble with two hands because that is considered double dribbling. Two hands. Another hoop regulation refers to traveling. Traveling is a term used in basketball for years to indicate that you have now moved your pivot foot. Once you get the basketball, you jump stop, you establish your pivot foot, that eliminates you from traveling, which commits a rule violation. Which means the official is going to blow the whistle and they're going to say travel and use that hand signal. So it's very important to understand that you don't travel. Make sure when catch a basketball that you establish your pivot foot first. That avoids you and prevents you from traveling with the basketball and committing that hoop violation. In addition to hoop regulations another regulation that you need to be concerned with or you need to learn and understand would be directly related to palming the ball. Sometimes little leaguers, I find this common with little league, youth league programs. Kids are dribbling the basketball and they dribble the basketball so high the basketball comes out above their shoulders. That's really considered palming. The official will make that call as a palm. So you want to make sure that you keep the basketball waste level and that allows you to avoid dribbling the ball high which causes you to violate or commit a violation in palming the basketball. And that's just some of the tidbits on hoop regulations."